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Fox Board of Education approves audit acknowledgement, contracts and personnel actions
Summary
At its April 17, 2025 meeting, the Fox Board of Education accepted an audit acknowledgement from Wilson, Dotson and Associates, approved multiple contracts and memoranda of understanding for 2025–26, filed financial reports for audit, approved salary step corrections, and voted to re‑employ certified and support personnel for 2025–26.
The Fox Board of Education met in regular session on April 17, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in the superintendent’s office. Vice‑President Otto Young called the meeting to order; President Joey Rodriguez and Member Twanna Owens were recorded absent.
Clerk Stacie Fletcher moved and Member Carolyn McConnell seconded a motion to accept the audit acknowledgement letter from Wilson, Dotson and Associates; the motion passed with Fletcher, McConnell and Young voting aye and Rodriguez and Owens recorded absent.
The board voted to approve the consent agenda covering items #7–#10 and #12–#16. The consent package, moved by Clerk Stacie Fletcher and seconded by Member Carolyn McConnell, included approval of the minutes of the March 13, 2025 regular meeting; a contract with Clearwater for the 2025–2026 school year; a copier contract with Stanley for 2025–2026; an extra five‑day absence allowance for co‑curricular and extra‑curricular activities (list attached to minutes); a school‑based family specialist contract with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS); a memorandum of understanding with Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Center for FY26; a division order contract with Black Mesa Energy, LLC; and a contract with Sylogist for the 2025–2026 school year. Item #11 on the agenda was tabled.
Also recorded as part of routine business, the board approved Tina Lonnon as a substitute teacher.
On financial matters, Member Carolyn McConnell moved and Clerk Stacie Fletcher seconded motions to file the activity fund financial report and the school financial report for audit; both motions passed with the same recorded vote pattern (Fletcher, McConnell and Young aye; Rodriguez and Owens absent). The board approved purchase orders, payroll purchase orders and payments to be filed for audit across funds, including general fund P.O.'s 199–207; general fund payroll P.O.'s 50000–50045; general fund payments 756–841; building fund P.O.'s 37–38 and payments 110–126; and municipal tax levy P.O.'s 25016–25018 and payments 14–16.
Clerk Stacie Fletcher and Member Carolyn McConnell moved and seconded approval of salary step increases that should have been on contracts in August 2024 for Sabrina Burns, Alicia Schier, Debbie Bohannan, Lauren Kilcrease and Marcia Foster. That motion passed with Fletcher, McConnell and Young recorded as voting aye; Rodriguez and Owens were absent.
The board accepted Executive Officer Mark Williams’ recommendation to re‑employ the attached certified personnel and the attached support personnel for the 2025–2026 school year, subject to state and federal funding and assignment by the principal and superintendent. Both re‑employment motions passed on the same recorded votes.
Vice‑President Otto Young moved and Clerk Stacie Fletcher seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:32 p.m.; the motion passed and the meeting adjourned.
Votes at a glance: All recorded motions in the minutes show Stacie Fletcher, Carolyn McConnell and Otto Young voting "aye," with Joey Rodriguez and Twanna Owens recorded as absent on the roll calls shown in the minutes. Specific movers and seconders are recorded for each motion as noted in this report.
